MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 8, 27 April 1877, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Here if a fit robjeot for the Debating Society. Mr Grimmond is reported to have said, in addressing the electors at How j— " The first thing a representative pi to do is to advance the interests of the Colony, and then those of the district jie --represent*." Mr M'Gaffin, to ihe electors at Woodstock the other evening «aid j— " It i* the duty of a member to look oat for his own district first, and the tfoloay afterwards. ' » GHtitim « rery free in the United States. The San Francisco News Letter describing the personal appearance of Mrs Tadea, wife of the Democratic candidate ive the Presidency, says :— " She is i thought to be a little knock-kneed in one leg, but as the other is canted out just a little the other way ihere is no collision or anything; aM iworks right along smoothly. He New Zealand Times says:— 'The steamer Luna has been brought Alongside the wharf, and a score of men *et to work npon her to take oat the forward boiler, alter the cabin, and generally re-arrange the space so as to give more room for freight. We under* «tand, in- connection with the reques. made to the Corporation by Mr gennedy, that that body has little or nothiog to do with granting permission to boild a wharf However, it may bo regarded as a certainty that the Corporation will not make any recommendation to lessen the Branaer (Coalmining Company's claim upon the -Government for sympathy and fair assist' ancey The Luna will commence running <on or about May 1. ■ , There is, perhaps, a serf general misunderstanding that the Arctic night is night only in name ; that a perpetual twilight reigns ; that the reflection of the 4now illumines distant objects ; that flic moon is always at the full; and that the Hashes of the iarora, the merry dancers of the North, are always brilliant. We .are not exaggerating when we say that we have, at one time or another, heard of each of these propositions, and especially •the fragment of a lunar theory, seriously maintained by men who would be generally spoken of as "well informed." It is well, therefore, to say that they are, each and every one of them, misstatements and misconceptions based on absolute error. That in the lower latitudes within the Arctic Circle the twilight at noon is very perceptible; that the moon, when /fall, shines, through fie joli&t air with great brilliance ; that the Aurora occa« asionally gleams with splendour and Jjqaufcy; and that what little light these is is intensified by the white lustre of the snow, are points to be readily admitted, but do not alter the great law of nature to which Arctic travellers have to submit. The Arctic night is, practically speak* iog asdarkasany other night.— Edinburgh JReview. The Levity Marionettes Company opened at Ballarat, on the night of the 2nd inst., at the Theatre Royal, to a crowded bouse, numbers of country people feeing in the place. The audience evidently digliked the performances, and eonxfomned it is an imposition, Shortly after the curtain was drawn up hooting and hissing began. Throwing of f r uit at the performers followed, and the demonstrations of the audience got very warm. At last bqtq,o people began to get on tbe Mage. The lights were then turned out, and a scene of tbe wildest uproar followed Temporary lights were attained. The gasenet 1 globes were smashed, the cushions were terra* to pieces in many places, the greens were torn down, and the music* .stands were thrown on the stage, many being broken. An inquiring spirit having 4 asked where the propietors of the jnarionettes were staying, and being told At Fafsell's Hotel, a great crowd marched jtp that bouse, yelling and hooting all tbe jtitne. Arrived at the hotel the mob 4emanded their money back, and the jnfnriatod crowd seemed to threaten serious mischief. It was some time before jthe police arrived, bnt eventually a posse /same down, and the footpath was cleared of the riotous assemblage. Tbe rioters bad scarcely been cleared of the footpath before ftonetbrowing commenced, to a Jimiied extent certainly, and one of Fassell's plate-glass window had a stone throws through it. The police soon managed to dear away the mob, bnt jiot before many serious threats were uttered against Levity, the propietor of Ihe marionettes, and if that person had made pii appearance at the time tbe mob came down, the chances are that he would have been severely ill-treated, if not killed. Th« mqb continued to demand their money back, bnt could not get it. Quietness was at last restored % but the affair was yery nearly being a serious riot. When the Storn Cloud Threatens, mariners hasten to close-reef tbe sails of the ship. Those who are admonished of approaching danger by the preliminary symptoms of disease, may well profit by the example of the sailor and take fne&atxren to avert it. Bodily weakness and trifling irregularities in the discharge pi the physical functions are the forerunners of disease. Be warned in time and use that sovereign protective, Udolpho Woiifs's Schiedam Abomatic (Schnapps.